True Notebooks

True Notebooks
Author: Mark Salzman
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307429849

In 1997 Mark Salzman, bestselling author Iron and Silk and Lying Awake, paid a reluctant visit to a writing class at L.A.’s Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders, many of them charged with murder. What he found so moved and astonished him that he began to teach there regularly. In voices of indelible emotional presence, the boys write about what led them to crime and about the lives that stretch ahead of them behind bars. We see them coming to terms with their crime-ridden pasts and searching for a reason to believe in their future selves. Insightful, comic, honest and tragic, True Notebooks is an object lesson in the redemptive power of writing.

True Notebooks

True Notebooks
Author: Mark Salzman
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307429849

In 1997 Mark Salzman, bestselling author Iron and Silk and Lying Awake, paid a reluctant visit to a writing class at L.A.’s Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders, many of them charged with murder. What he found so moved and astonished him that he began to teach there regularly. In voices of indelible emotional presence, the boys write about what led them to crime and about the lives that stretch ahead of them behind bars. We see them coming to terms with their crime-ridden pasts and searching for a reason to believe in their future selves. Insightful, comic, honest and tragic, True Notebooks is an object lesson in the redemptive power of writing.

What was True

What was True
Author: William Gedney
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2000-01
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9780393048247

A collection of photographs is complemented by notes and excerpts from the journals and correspondence of the late photographer

Iron and Silk

Iron and Silk
Author: Mark Salzman
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1987-10-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0394755111

Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China's foremost martial arts teacher.

Lying Awake

Lying Awake
Author: Mark Salzman
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2003-12-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1400077753

Mark Salzman's Lying Awake is a finely wrought gem that plumbs the depths of one woman's soul, and in so doing raises salient questions about the power-and price-of faith. Sister John's cloistered life of peace and prayer has been electrified by ever more frequent visions of God's radiance, leading her toward a deep religious ecstasy. Her life and writings have become examples of devotion. Yet her visions are accompanied by shattering headaches that compel Sister John to seek medical help. When her doctor tells her an illness may be responsible for her gift, Sister John faces a wrenching choice: to risk her intimate glimpses of the divine in favor of a cure, or to continue her visions with the knowledge that they might be false-and might even cost her her life.

The Busy Blue Jay

The Busy Blue Jay
Author: Olive Thorne Miller
Publisher: BookRix
Total Pages: 14
Release: 2014-05-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3736809654

The Busy Blue Jay: True Bird Stories from My Notebooks by Olive Thorne Miller. A story about a blue jay named Jakie. This chapters focuses on his mischevious behavior. Harriet Mann Miller was a naturalist, ornithologist and children's writer. She was the wife of Watts Todd Miller and sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Olive Thorne Miller.

The Ghost Notebooks

The Ghost Notebooks
Author: Ben Dolnick
Publisher: Pantheon
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2018
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101871091

"A supernatural story of love, ghosts, and madness as a young couple, newly engaged, become caretakers of a historic museum"--

The Notebook

The Notebook
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2000-01-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0446930644

Experience the unforgettable, heartbreaking love story set in post-World War II North Carolina about a young socialite and the boy who once stole her heart -- one of PBS's "Great American Reads". Every so often a love story so captures our hearts that it becomes more than a story-it becomes an experience to remember forever. The Notebook is such a book. It is a celebration of how passion can be ageless and timeless, a tale that moves us to laughter and tears and makes us believe in true love all over again... At thirty-one, Noah Calhoun, back in coastal North Carolina after World War II, is haunted by images of the girl he lost more than a decade earlier. At twenty-nine, socialite Allie Nelson is about to marry a wealthy lawyer, but she cannot stop thinking about the boy who long ago stole her heart. Thus begins the story of a love so enduring and deep it can turn tragedy into triumph, and may even have the power to create a miracle...

So What If It's True

So What If It's True
Author: Lorri Jackson
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-12-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9781945334016

A collection from the works of Lorri Jackson

Thirty True Tales of the Weird, Unusual and Macabre

Thirty True Tales of the Weird, Unusual and Macabre
Author: Pat Bussard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2013-05-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9780615796857

The stories between the covers of this book are for those who love their tales of the weird, unusual and macabre deliciously - real. Werewolves, vampires, aliens, cryptids, and ghosts are just a few of the mysterious creatures to whom you will be introduced or reintroduced through the voices of those who have encountered them. Come join the Paranormal Journalist as she guides you through a fantastical landscape inhabited by otherworldly beings too often relegated to the dark corners of humanity's consciousness. Read about real paranormal investigators who go places few would go to meet and communicate with the spirits of those long dead. Find out about a harbinger of doom that foretold the collapse of a superstructure and launched a legend. Learn about an organization dedicated to the pursuit of evidence of UFO abductions and visitations. Many writers conduct academic research, but Pat Bussard has also traveled to many of the locations she wrote about in this book to bring to the reader a deeper connection to these places of historical supernatural significance. She has interviewed some of the most renowned voices in the paranormal field to give readers authentic true stories of the preternatural. The book is heavily illustrated by photographs taken by the author while she was on location. Foreword by Rosemary Ellen Guiley. Hear their voices. Read the book. Know the truth.